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Chicago examiner vol xiii no 7 a m c + * sunday sunday Chicago january 3 1915 price five cents watch trust victorious in sherman law suii court declines to dissolve key stone company because big business is not against pub lic interest grant injunction the keystone watch case company is not to be dissolved because of its r but it has been restrained by in junction lrom the practices on which hie government asked its dissolution the united states district court at philadelphia yesterday in a decision handed down by judge mcpherson declined to dissolve the company in this connection he said wc see no sufficient evidence that the public interest requires us to break up the existing corporate en uoycott was chabjgkd one of the government's charges was that the keystone company con trolled so per cent of the watch and watch case business of the country and forced dealers to use its goods exclusively under the threat of boy cotting thcni if they bought from other concerns circulars to this ef fect had been sent out and in issuing the injunction ending the boycott tac tics judge mcpherson said the defendant declares that the policy of boycott had been given up when the complaint was filed and there is some testimony to that ef fect but the circular never has been w ithdrawn or negatived we feel no hesitation in acting on the assump tion that the policy was at least for mally in force when the government legan the suit now before us and we have no doubt that an injunction should be granted 51uuh interest shown here Chicago corporation attorneys dis played great interest in the decision several hearings were heid here and the relations of the keystone com pany with the elgin national watch company and the Illinois watch case company also of elgin were de scribed by witnesses another reason for their interest was the fact that the decision ad heres to the policy laid down by the federal courts in several recent cases of refusing to dissolve a company merely because it is big but suggest ing other means such as injunction proceedings of ending any illegal practices it may have been engaged one prominent corporation attor ney said the decision was along the same lines as that handed down by the judges of the sixth judicial cir cuit at cleveland last june in the case of the government against the great bakes towing company the judges first handed down a decree dissolving the concern but gave it the alterna tive of submitting some plan for con ducting its business so the abuses complained of would be done away must operate fairly the great lakes company agreed tofollow the instructions of the court in conducting its business said the attorney and the court then placed it under a perpetual injunction requir ing it to operate fairly as a common carrier to file its tariffs publicly to abstain from all monopolistic prac tices give lair service to the public and refrain from favoritism in either rates or service this was done after government attorneys had objected to the plan submitted by the company for con ducting its busines and had asked the court to appoint a receiver to take charge the philadelphia de cision seems to be along the same lines the suit against the keystone com pany was filed in philadelphia de cember ao 1911 the government charged that beginning with the con solidation of two firms of watch case maker in 1889 the keystone expand ed until it obtained control of all the export trade of the ulgin national watch company in 1904 except that with canada and in 1905 became sales agent for the waltham watch com pany of waltham miss the elgin and waltham companies were the leading watch manufactur ers of the united slates and the gov ernment charged that by this control the keystone company induced job bers to ceave handling any other lines of goods than those made by the key stone and its subsidiaries kept a blacklist of all dealers who sold those movements at less than an estab lished price and refused to sell those movements as well as any watch uses to jobbers who continued to to retailers whose names ap peared on the blacklist m c eppenstein an official of the Illinois watch case company testi fied at a hearing in Chicago february 26 i9i:i that his concern lost numer ous valuable customers because job bers refused to handle any goods not i of keystone manufacture mayor fears thug attack on city hall activity of holdup men causes him to ask for a special police guard police are to be stationed in the city hall to guard it from holdups this at the earnest request of mayor harrison who has been much im pressed by the vigor and activity of gunmen wouldn't it be a nice howdy-do if one of the departments in the city hall were held up and robbed de manded the mayor last night at the meeting of the finance committee i think the office of the water de partment ought to have a policeman to guard it the committee decided to consult chief gleason before taking formal action cupid has busy day to start new year daniel cupid on a strike this year not according to the county clerk's register in which 123 marriage licenses were recorded at the end of the first three hours of the first busi ness day of the new year john kaiser guest of the hotel la salic obtained the first license of 1915 to wed miss cesarin rocquart almost a license a minute said deputy clerk louis legner it certainly looks like a prosperous year astors will sail via canal to fair new york dec 2 â€” vincent as tor and his bride of less than a year with a party of friends will start for the panama fair about february 1 via the panama canal the voyage will be made on the palatial yacht noma on which the late john jacob astor often enter tained members of the royal house holds of europe astor plans to reach california for the opening of the fair february 20 500,000 gems on lucky's daughter san francisco cal jan 2 four policemen trailed mrs clara baldwin stocker through the st francis hotel when the daughter of lucky baldwin appeared at a ball wearing 500,000 worth of diamonds policeman casey almost fainted when mrs stocker descended a stairway they look like the real things he confided to his comrades women ask wilson to speak in Chicago a special invitation to president woodrow wilson to address a mass meeting of the Illinois woman's dem ocratic league was wired yesterday by mrs joanna e downes president of the league the president will be in indianapolis soon and mrs downes hopes to be able to induce him to speak here texas governor offers prizes for babies austin tex jan 2 â€” governor elect ferguson authorized the an nouncement to-day that he would give a prize of 10 for the first twins and a prize of 50 for the first trip lets born in texas in 1915 four young bandits are given life sentences â€” young crooks who held up mes singer lunch room collector in auto get one year to life and hoyne will fight paroles four automobile bandits and hold up men reaped the full penalty for their crimes yesterday when they were sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for from one year to life they were found guilty by a jury and their sentence fixed it was pronounced upon them yesterday by judge petit who denied their coun sel's motion for a new trial assistant state's attorney james c o'brien who obtained the conviction said the men would be eligible to parole in eleven months but that the state's attorney's office would resist any attempt by their friends to get them out unless they can obtain clemency from some future parole board they will be inmates of joliet until freed by death held lp messi.xger the convicted men are the four who held up edward messinger a collector for the messinger lunch rooms oh october 3 and endeavored to steal a satchel containing 3,000 they are ' raymond joseph twenty-two years old former waiter in me inger's res taurants who planned the job murphy john twenty-one years old son of saloon keeper at burnham trintfoll george twenty-four years old edwards russell nineteen years old the crime for which they were con victed was spectacular messinger came out of the general offices of his concern at 237 west ontario street in the morning and started toward a bank he was but a few doors away when an automobile dashed up to the curb and four men leaped out and set upon him one of them knocked him down with a club and the others tried to wrest the satchel from his grasp flee as help comes messinger resisted and shouted for help when several men rushed to his assistance the robbers fled in the struggle they had dragged their victim into the street and they ran the automobile over his left leg frac turing it two of the men leaped from the machine a block away and were cor nered in an alley they gave the names of the other two and the lat ter were arrested later in the day in his argument to the jury assist ant state's attorney o'brien laid stress upon the fact that messinger was being beaten with a club when aid came and might have been killed he asked the jury to convict the men under that section of the law provid ing that where a highway robber is armed with a deadly weapon he may be sentenced to an indeterminate te>rni from one year to life attorney miles j devine for the four defendants argued that a club is not a deadly weapon the jury de clined to take this view russell edwards pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence but o'brien refused to grant immunity to him edwards said he had turned robber because he was engaged to be mar ried and had not been able to obtain employment teach boys to sew plea of mr s young head of chicago's schools also advocates establishment of cooking classes for youths mrs ella flagg toung chicago's superintendent of schools believes that cooking and sewing are as much manly arts as horseshoeing ana car pentering she said so yesterday in a meeting of the Chicago political equality league in the congress hotel and she was roundly applauded i have long believed she said that boys ought to be taught to cook and sew the same as the girls they should know the arts upon which the human race is built the bakers have asked to have a course on saturdays in one of the schools here but it means extra ex pense and we can't afford it how ever i am going to do all i can to give an opportunity to the boys to learn to cook down and outs get st caroline hotel from the exclusive place where forty years ago the elite danced and dined the caroline hotel 117 north elizabeth street has become a free lodging and breakfast house for un employed men at a meeting of the Chicago christian industrial league yesterday the owner offered the free use of the building for the next three months james a patten who is an officer of the league told the mem bers what a fashionable place the hotel was thirty-five years ago the board will ask each survivor of the gay times of old to give as much as he can to make the old building use ful in its last days college days due for denaturing process everything that might grow into an excuse for adult reference to dear old college days is to be done away with there are to be no more dear old college days the question of taming the rah-rah boy is to be con sidered at a convention to open at the hotel sherman january 13 when will begin the sessions of the confer ence of church workers in state uni versities the council of church boards of education and the associa tion of american college presidents good-by rah-rah boy take keer yo self each woman swears girl is her daughter hillsboro 111 jan 2.â€”physi cians nurses and citizens testified be fore judge thomas m jett to-day that both mrs joseph martinique and mrs helena watson are the mother of a baby born about september 10 1914 mrs martinique is the wife of a manufacturer mrs watson's hus band is a wealthy farmer every witness was certain regarding the evidence of birth some were present when the child was born mrs mar tinique is suing for possession of the child a girl named edna gilbert chesterton essayist is dying london jan 2 â€” gilbert k ches terton is dying according to informa tion received to-day from a relative of the famous essayist for a month chesterton has been in a critical con dition in his country home at bea consfield buckinghamshire the ex act nature of his illness has not been disclosed but it is rumored he had a stroke of paralysis 10 cost of annoying girl from Chicago new york jan 2 j wish you a happy new year said hans bor mer to a young woman seeing that he was a stranger she caused his ar rest in court to-day tm3 young woman identified herself as mrs kdna clifton of Chicago bormer was fined 10 he apologized to mrs clifton gerville-reach is worse new york jan 2 â€” mme ger ville-rcach former grand opera sing er was in a dangerous condition to night in roosevelt hospital where she has been for three weeks suffer ing from blood poisoning new year's day her two little sons were taken to the hospital and the physi cians fear the excitement had a bad effect scott tells wilson u s must stop border fire general understood to have re ported that peaceful measures have failed to end flight of . bullets and force is needed washington jan 2.â€”presi dent wilson to-day received from general hugh scott chief of staff now in charge at naco ariz a re port which is understood to recom inent strongly that immediate and grave steps be taken by the united states to put an end to fighting across the border by mexicans it is believed the report informs the president that all peaceful ef forts to relieve the situation have failed and that the only thing left to do is to use force at 10 o'clock to-night after a long conference with president wilson secretary tumulty gave out the fol lowing announcement there is a hitch in the signing of the agreement between hill and may torenn to withdraw from the neigh borhood of aeo and our government in trying to adjust the matter bnt vie do not yet know what the difficulty is in the absence of positive knowl edge of the contents of the dispatch received from general scott this an nouncement is interpreted in wash ington to mean that the chief of staff insists that pressure be brought to bear on the mexican commanders the dispatch came to the war de partment and was put in the hands of acting secretary breckinridge he sent one copy to the state de partment and forwarded another note to secretary of war garrison who is in atlantic city discussed with wilson acting secretary of state lansing took the dispatch to the white house and discussed it with president wil son on his return to the depart ment he held conferences with acting secretary of war breckenridge ma jor p d lociridge and other officers cers there are two propositions before the president for the stoppage of the firing across the border and both are the recommendations of the war de partment one is to call a halt on the shipment of food supplies across the border from american territory and the other is to return the fire of the mexicans and drive them away from the line in choosing between the two the president is really confronted with the problem of deciding whether he will give aid to the villa forces or to the carranza forces h g c auvater was fatally stabbed by a mexican at tampico on december 29 according to a message to the state department to-day from the consular agent at tampico general jesus carranza brother of the constitutional chief has been thrown into prison at san geronimo by his own troops who revolted and declared their allegiance to general villa capture of san luis l'otosi by car ranza forces was reported in advices from galveston to the agency here caiikanza troops defeated el paso tex jan 2 â€” fighting between carranzistas and convention government troops is officially re ported from mexico city to have taken place a short distance west of tampico resulting in a victory for the convention forces for three days the troops were in continuous battle when finally the greater part of the carranzista forces fled leaving 282 dead the occupation of saltillo by convention troops has been reported j to the military officials at torreon the carranzistas fled to monterey maurice is injured in auto accident new york jan 2 â€” maurice dancer who is partly responsible for the present dance craze in america was injured to-night when an auto in which he and ernest simmons the atrical manager were riding struck another car maurice received bruises of the riclm knee allies will win in l9l7 says edison general hugh scott chief of staff and in command of the u s troops at naco ariz who has told president wilson u s must use force to stop firing across the border by mexicans wizard expects a 15,000,000 order for storage batteries to run u s warships orange n j jan 2 â€” here are a few of the new year predictions made by thomas a edison in an inter view to-day the war will last two years more germany cannot win submarines will not eliminate dreadnoughts the united states will run its own warships by 15,000,000 worth of stor age batteries the contract for which the wizard expects to receive this year ammonia will be produced from the air his scheme for utilizing the pres ent wastage of 10,000 gallons of ben zol daily in this country will be per fected american business men will stop bemoaning the war and get busy american countess dead in brussels washington jan 2 word was received here to-day of the death in brussels wednesday of countess de buisseret daughter of general and mrs story of washington the count ess was the wife of the former bel gium minister to the united states for two months the state department tried to find her finally the neth erlands minister managed to learn she was recovering from an operation in a brussels hospital 10,000 damages asked of billings a suit for 10,000 damages will be filed to-morrow in judge gibbons court against c k g billings new york millionaire based on the acci dental killing three years ago of a child in evanston billings son a m billings now a vale freshman was riding in an auto which ran over and killed william macdonald son of mrs emma macdonald of 1930 barrow avenue evanston who brings the suit kaiser's son to be made belgians king loxdox jan 2 reynolds news paper in to-day's issue declares it has learned from a well-informed dutch source that the kaiser has signified his intention of bestowing the bel gian throne upon prince adalbert his third son survivors el how warship was sunk formidable victims fight gale 20 hours sixty of formidable's crew escape in cut ter but 20 die of ex haustion bodies are thrown overboard london jan 2 the sinking of the battleship formidable described in detail to-day for the first time by survivors of the disaster was as ; intensely dramatic as it was appall i ing when she was struck a gale was blowing a storm which in itself was terrifying as she settled above the roar of the sea and the screeching of the wind cries of the drowning mingled with the shouted commands of the officers the whole scene was lighted by rockets which streaked the foggy dawn while on deck and in the rigging flares burned as signals of distress suddenly the great ship which had been listing heavily heeled over to starboard then straightened and plunged bow first the signal lights | flared up like something uncanny throwing out in bold relief the figures of captain arthur n loxley and his signal boy standing at salute alone on the bridge as witn a final quiver the formida ble dived beneath the surface a mighty last shriek of the ship's whistles split the air like the death cry of a wounded animal and the waters rushed in upon her 20 die in small boat for the survivors the sinking of the ship was but the beginning of their battle for life a dramatic story of j a twenty-hour struggle in the gale t was told by members of the crew of sixty in a cutter from the formidable which was beached at lymeregis at midnight of the cutter crew of sixty which started from t side of the formida ble twenty died of exhaustion and exposure before the boat was beached and their bodies were tossed over board after being stripped of clothing on landing nine more were found to be dead of exhaustion all were half-naked the captain and nearly 600 of the officers and crew were lost in the forty-five minutes which elapsed before the formidable took her last plunge the crew battled with the waves in what seemed an almost hopeless task to launch the boats ci'ttkr stove in one of the survivors tells the story of their struggle the cutter was stove in and the men stuffed their jumpers into the hole to keep the water out all the oars were lost except five or six get ting the cutter clear the men jumped into the water and swam to the floats one ship stood by but could not as sist because of the boisterous weath er the captain told the men to hang on but we lost sight of them in the darkness we drifted about for an | hour and a half with a scarf tied to i an oar and finally attracted the at tention of a trawler 1 was asleep in my bunk when i was awakened by what sounded like a gigantic explosion said j parr i ran on deck there was no panic every man took his post and the of ficers gave their orders as calmly as on maneuver days in a smooth sea there was even jocular spirit among the men and one of them raised a laugh by remarking well this is a fine new year's gift â€¢ soon after orders had been given to lower boats there was another ex plosion we could not lower the pin naces thero were seventy of us in the second boat lowered we pulled away some little distance and stood by i saw two other boats get away after us we kept in sight of the ship for one hour or more and dur ing that time we distinctly saw rock a u s asks britain to explain attitude first explicit protest calls for reason fori sudden change hv contraband edict on naval stores washington jan 2 the uni ted states asked great britain to day how the latter's statement early in november that naval stores in cluding resin camphor and turpen tine would be regarded as noucon trr.band will be reconciled with the notification from the ilritisb foreign office of a week ago that these prod ucts are now absolute contraband information is sought as to how cargoes now en route are affected and whether resinous products aru included southern states are greatly stirred up over england's action and haro protested to president wilson the communication is said to be the first protest on specific articles listed by great britain as absolute contra band in the american note of pro test it was stated that while the united states objected to some of the classifications made the discussion of them would be reserved until another time the protest concerning naval stores l was communicated to-day to the gov | ernors and senators of several south era states resin and turpentine hal been intended for baha&t with cotton > cargoes and the british government lis on recdrd as stating that cargoes j 1 so made up would not be regarded aa i contraband the stale department | had no sooner sent notification to tliis effect to shippers than the british i foreign office published its new list although this phase of the situa i tlon was not specifically mentioned ] in the recent american note it was ! generally understood to have been a j contributory reason for the dispatch of the document cite british i'kijckui vl it was learned to-day that the am erican note to great britain on the subject of contraband and the seizure and detention of american cargoes was framed upon the lines of the cor respondence of great britain and russia during the russo-japanesu war great britain sent not one but many notes to russia protesting against rusian interference with her commerce and the language in which british objection to russian interfer ence was couched was much mora vigorous than that employed in the note the american government has sent to gieat britain state department officials having familiarized themselves thoroughly with the british-russian correspond ence before framing the american note of protest cannot see how great britain can fall to admit the justice of the american contentions without i complete stultification upon this point the reader will be able to judge for himself by making his own comparison between the brit ish notes to russia and the american | note to great britain | protest oh rice about the first matter of contro versy between great britain and rus 1 sia during the russo-japanese war i was the action of russia in including in the list of contraband rice and provisions if transported on the ac count of or destined tor the enemy '* this declaration of russia led the ' marquis of lansdow lie british minis j ter of foreign affairs to transmit a ! note to sir c hardinge british repre j sentative at st petersburg in wiiloh he said his majesty's government observes with great concern that rice and pro , visions will be treated as kw , tlonal contrabandawhich it regards continued onad page r % be a trained worker and double your 1915 earnings carefully compiled statistics show that the wages of men who fit themselves for their work are more than twice as large as those of untrained workers a full course at one of the trade schools listed in the examiner's want ad columns covers a comparatively short peroid and the cost is reasonable the value of vocational training cannot be overestimated increase your efficiency in a year rich in prospect and you can be sure of a good salary splendid opportunities in every line of business as well as in the trades are offered in the examiner's want ad and real estate section average 22 â€”

Chicago examiner vol xiii no 7 a m c + * sunday sunday Chicago january 3 1915 price five cents watch trust victorious in sherman law suii court declines to dissolve key stone company because big business is not against pub lic interest grant injunction the keystone watch case company is not to be dissolved because of its r but it has been restrained by in junction lrom the practices on which hie government asked its dissolution the united states district court at philadelphia yesterday in a decision handed down by judge mcpherson declined to dissolve the company in this connection he said wc see no sufficient evidence that the public interest requires us to break up the existing corporate en uoycott was chabjgkd one of the government's charges was that the keystone company con trolled so per cent of the watch and watch case business of the country and forced dealers to use its goods exclusively under the threat of boy cotting thcni if they bought from other concerns circulars to this ef fect had been sent out and in issuing the injunction ending the boycott tac tics judge mcpherson said the defendant declares that the policy of boycott had been given up when the complaint was filed and there is some testimony to that ef fect but the circular never has been w ithdrawn or negatived we feel no hesitation in acting on the assump tion that the policy was at least for mally in force when the government legan the suit now before us and we have no doubt that an injunction should be granted 51uuh interest shown here Chicago corporation attorneys dis played great interest in the decision several hearings were heid here and the relations of the keystone com pany with the elgin national watch company and the Illinois watch case company also of elgin were de scribed by witnesses another reason for their interest was the fact that the decision ad heres to the policy laid down by the federal courts in several recent cases of refusing to dissolve a company merely because it is big but suggest ing other means such as injunction proceedings of ending any illegal practices it may have been engaged one prominent corporation attor ney said the decision was along the same lines as that handed down by the judges of the sixth judicial cir cuit at cleveland last june in the case of the government against the great bakes towing company the judges first handed down a decree dissolving the concern but gave it the alterna tive of submitting some plan for con ducting its business so the abuses complained of would be done away must operate fairly the great lakes company agreed tofollow the instructions of the court in conducting its business said the attorney and the court then placed it under a perpetual injunction requir ing it to operate fairly as a common carrier to file its tariffs publicly to abstain from all monopolistic prac tices give lair service to the public and refrain from favoritism in either rates or service this was done after government attorneys had objected to the plan submitted by the company for con ducting its busines and had asked the court to appoint a receiver to take charge the philadelphia de cision seems to be along the same lines the suit against the keystone com pany was filed in philadelphia de cember ao 1911 the government charged that beginning with the con solidation of two firms of watch case maker in 1889 the keystone expand ed until it obtained control of all the export trade of the ulgin national watch company in 1904 except that with canada and in 1905 became sales agent for the waltham watch com pany of waltham miss the elgin and waltham companies were the leading watch manufactur ers of the united slates and the gov ernment charged that by this control the keystone company induced job bers to ceave handling any other lines of goods than those made by the key stone and its subsidiaries kept a blacklist of all dealers who sold those movements at less than an estab lished price and refused to sell those movements as well as any watch uses to jobbers who continued to to retailers whose names ap peared on the blacklist m c eppenstein an official of the Illinois watch case company testi fied at a hearing in Chicago february 26 i9i:i that his concern lost numer ous valuable customers because job bers refused to handle any goods not i of keystone manufacture mayor fears thug attack on city hall activity of holdup men causes him to ask for a special police guard police are to be stationed in the city hall to guard it from holdups this at the earnest request of mayor harrison who has been much im pressed by the vigor and activity of gunmen wouldn't it be a nice howdy-do if one of the departments in the city hall were held up and robbed de manded the mayor last night at the meeting of the finance committee i think the office of the water de partment ought to have a policeman to guard it the committee decided to consult chief gleason before taking formal action cupid has busy day to start new year daniel cupid on a strike this year not according to the county clerk's register in which 123 marriage licenses were recorded at the end of the first three hours of the first busi ness day of the new year john kaiser guest of the hotel la salic obtained the first license of 1915 to wed miss cesarin rocquart almost a license a minute said deputy clerk louis legner it certainly looks like a prosperous year astors will sail via canal to fair new york dec 2 â€” vincent as tor and his bride of less than a year with a party of friends will start for the panama fair about february 1 via the panama canal the voyage will be made on the palatial yacht noma on which the late john jacob astor often enter tained members of the royal house holds of europe astor plans to reach california for the opening of the fair february 20 500,000 gems on lucky's daughter san francisco cal jan 2 four policemen trailed mrs clara baldwin stocker through the st francis hotel when the daughter of lucky baldwin appeared at a ball wearing 500,000 worth of diamonds policeman casey almost fainted when mrs stocker descended a stairway they look like the real things he confided to his comrades women ask wilson to speak in Chicago a special invitation to president woodrow wilson to address a mass meeting of the Illinois woman's dem ocratic league was wired yesterday by mrs joanna e downes president of the league the president will be in indianapolis soon and mrs downes hopes to be able to induce him to speak here texas governor offers prizes for babies austin tex jan 2 â€” governor elect ferguson authorized the an nouncement to-day that he would give a prize of 10 for the first twins and a prize of 50 for the first trip lets born in texas in 1915 four young bandits are given life sentences â€” young crooks who held up mes singer lunch room collector in auto get one year to life and hoyne will fight paroles four automobile bandits and hold up men reaped the full penalty for their crimes yesterday when they were sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for from one year to life they were found guilty by a jury and their sentence fixed it was pronounced upon them yesterday by judge petit who denied their coun sel's motion for a new trial assistant state's attorney james c o'brien who obtained the conviction said the men would be eligible to parole in eleven months but that the state's attorney's office would resist any attempt by their friends to get them out unless they can obtain clemency from some future parole board they will be inmates of joliet until freed by death held lp messi.xger the convicted men are the four who held up edward messinger a collector for the messinger lunch rooms oh october 3 and endeavored to steal a satchel containing 3,000 they are ' raymond joseph twenty-two years old former waiter in me inger's res taurants who planned the job murphy john twenty-one years old son of saloon keeper at burnham trintfoll george twenty-four years old edwards russell nineteen years old the crime for which they were con victed was spectacular messinger came out of the general offices of his concern at 237 west ontario street in the morning and started toward a bank he was but a few doors away when an automobile dashed up to the curb and four men leaped out and set upon him one of them knocked him down with a club and the others tried to wrest the satchel from his grasp flee as help comes messinger resisted and shouted for help when several men rushed to his assistance the robbers fled in the struggle they had dragged their victim into the street and they ran the automobile over his left leg frac turing it two of the men leaped from the machine a block away and were cor nered in an alley they gave the names of the other two and the lat ter were arrested later in the day in his argument to the jury assist ant state's attorney o'brien laid stress upon the fact that messinger was being beaten with a club when aid came and might have been killed he asked the jury to convict the men under that section of the law provid ing that where a highway robber is armed with a deadly weapon he may be sentenced to an indeterminate te>rni from one year to life attorney miles j devine for the four defendants argued that a club is not a deadly weapon the jury de clined to take this view russell edwards pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence but o'brien refused to grant immunity to him edwards said he had turned robber because he was engaged to be mar ried and had not been able to obtain employment teach boys to sew plea of mr s young head of chicago's schools also advocates establishment of cooking classes for youths mrs ella flagg toung chicago's superintendent of schools believes that cooking and sewing are as much manly arts as horseshoeing ana car pentering she said so yesterday in a meeting of the Chicago political equality league in the congress hotel and she was roundly applauded i have long believed she said that boys ought to be taught to cook and sew the same as the girls they should know the arts upon which the human race is built the bakers have asked to have a course on saturdays in one of the schools here but it means extra ex pense and we can't afford it how ever i am going to do all i can to give an opportunity to the boys to learn to cook down and outs get st caroline hotel from the exclusive place where forty years ago the elite danced and dined the caroline hotel 117 north elizabeth street has become a free lodging and breakfast house for un employed men at a meeting of the Chicago christian industrial league yesterday the owner offered the free use of the building for the next three months james a patten who is an officer of the league told the mem bers what a fashionable place the hotel was thirty-five years ago the board will ask each survivor of the gay times of old to give as much as he can to make the old building use ful in its last days college days due for denaturing process everything that might grow into an excuse for adult reference to dear old college days is to be done away with there are to be no more dear old college days the question of taming the rah-rah boy is to be con sidered at a convention to open at the hotel sherman january 13 when will begin the sessions of the confer ence of church workers in state uni versities the council of church boards of education and the associa tion of american college presidents good-by rah-rah boy take keer yo self each woman swears girl is her daughter hillsboro 111 jan 2.â€”physi cians nurses and citizens testified be fore judge thomas m jett to-day that both mrs joseph martinique and mrs helena watson are the mother of a baby born about september 10 1914 mrs martinique is the wife of a manufacturer mrs watson's hus band is a wealthy farmer every witness was certain regarding the evidence of birth some were present when the child was born mrs mar tinique is suing for possession of the child a girl named edna gilbert chesterton essayist is dying london jan 2 â€” gilbert k ches terton is dying according to informa tion received to-day from a relative of the famous essayist for a month chesterton has been in a critical con dition in his country home at bea consfield buckinghamshire the ex act nature of his illness has not been disclosed but it is rumored he had a stroke of paralysis 10 cost of annoying girl from Chicago new york jan 2 j wish you a happy new year said hans bor mer to a young woman seeing that he was a stranger she caused his ar rest in court to-day tm3 young woman identified herself as mrs kdna clifton of Chicago bormer was fined 10 he apologized to mrs clifton gerville-reach is worse new york jan 2 â€” mme ger ville-rcach former grand opera sing er was in a dangerous condition to night in roosevelt hospital where she has been for three weeks suffer ing from blood poisoning new year's day her two little sons were taken to the hospital and the physi cians fear the excitement had a bad effect scott tells wilson u s must stop border fire general understood to have re ported that peaceful measures have failed to end flight of . bullets and force is needed washington jan 2.â€”presi dent wilson to-day received from general hugh scott chief of staff now in charge at naco ariz a re port which is understood to recom inent strongly that immediate and grave steps be taken by the united states to put an end to fighting across the border by mexicans it is believed the report informs the president that all peaceful ef forts to relieve the situation have failed and that the only thing left to do is to use force at 10 o'clock to-night after a long conference with president wilson secretary tumulty gave out the fol lowing announcement there is a hitch in the signing of the agreement between hill and may torenn to withdraw from the neigh borhood of aeo and our government in trying to adjust the matter bnt vie do not yet know what the difficulty is in the absence of positive knowl edge of the contents of the dispatch received from general scott this an nouncement is interpreted in wash ington to mean that the chief of staff insists that pressure be brought to bear on the mexican commanders the dispatch came to the war de partment and was put in the hands of acting secretary breckinridge he sent one copy to the state de partment and forwarded another note to secretary of war garrison who is in atlantic city discussed with wilson acting secretary of state lansing took the dispatch to the white house and discussed it with president wil son on his return to the depart ment he held conferences with acting secretary of war breckenridge ma jor p d lociridge and other officers cers there are two propositions before the president for the stoppage of the firing across the border and both are the recommendations of the war de partment one is to call a halt on the shipment of food supplies across the border from american territory and the other is to return the fire of the mexicans and drive them away from the line in choosing between the two the president is really confronted with the problem of deciding whether he will give aid to the villa forces or to the carranza forces h g c auvater was fatally stabbed by a mexican at tampico on december 29 according to a message to the state department to-day from the consular agent at tampico general jesus carranza brother of the constitutional chief has been thrown into prison at san geronimo by his own troops who revolted and declared their allegiance to general villa capture of san luis l'otosi by car ranza forces was reported in advices from galveston to the agency here caiikanza troops defeated el paso tex jan 2 â€” fighting between carranzistas and convention government troops is officially re ported from mexico city to have taken place a short distance west of tampico resulting in a victory for the convention forces for three days the troops were in continuous battle when finally the greater part of the carranzista forces fled leaving 282 dead the occupation of saltillo by convention troops has been reported j to the military officials at torreon the carranzistas fled to monterey maurice is injured in auto accident new york jan 2 â€” maurice dancer who is partly responsible for the present dance craze in america was injured to-night when an auto in which he and ernest simmons the atrical manager were riding struck another car maurice received bruises of the riclm knee allies will win in l9l7 says edison general hugh scott chief of staff and in command of the u s troops at naco ariz who has told president wilson u s must use force to stop firing across the border by mexicans wizard expects a 15,000,000 order for storage batteries to run u s warships orange n j jan 2 â€” here are a few of the new year predictions made by thomas a edison in an inter view to-day the war will last two years more germany cannot win submarines will not eliminate dreadnoughts the united states will run its own warships by 15,000,000 worth of stor age batteries the contract for which the wizard expects to receive this year ammonia will be produced from the air his scheme for utilizing the pres ent wastage of 10,000 gallons of ben zol daily in this country will be per fected american business men will stop bemoaning the war and get busy american countess dead in brussels washington jan 2 word was received here to-day of the death in brussels wednesday of countess de buisseret daughter of general and mrs story of washington the count ess was the wife of the former bel gium minister to the united states for two months the state department tried to find her finally the neth erlands minister managed to learn she was recovering from an operation in a brussels hospital 10,000 damages asked of billings a suit for 10,000 damages will be filed to-morrow in judge gibbons court against c k g billings new york millionaire based on the acci dental killing three years ago of a child in evanston billings son a m billings now a vale freshman was riding in an auto which ran over and killed william macdonald son of mrs emma macdonald of 1930 barrow avenue evanston who brings the suit kaiser's son to be made belgians king loxdox jan 2 reynolds news paper in to-day's issue declares it has learned from a well-informed dutch source that the kaiser has signified his intention of bestowing the bel gian throne upon prince adalbert his third son survivors el how warship was sunk formidable victims fight gale 20 hours sixty of formidable's crew escape in cut ter but 20 die of ex haustion bodies are thrown overboard london jan 2 the sinking of the battleship formidable described in detail to-day for the first time by survivors of the disaster was as ; intensely dramatic as it was appall i ing when she was struck a gale was blowing a storm which in itself was terrifying as she settled above the roar of the sea and the screeching of the wind cries of the drowning mingled with the shouted commands of the officers the whole scene was lighted by rockets which streaked the foggy dawn while on deck and in the rigging flares burned as signals of distress suddenly the great ship which had been listing heavily heeled over to starboard then straightened and plunged bow first the signal lights | flared up like something uncanny throwing out in bold relief the figures of captain arthur n loxley and his signal boy standing at salute alone on the bridge as witn a final quiver the formida ble dived beneath the surface a mighty last shriek of the ship's whistles split the air like the death cry of a wounded animal and the waters rushed in upon her 20 die in small boat for the survivors the sinking of the ship was but the beginning of their battle for life a dramatic story of j a twenty-hour struggle in the gale t was told by members of the crew of sixty in a cutter from the formidable which was beached at lymeregis at midnight of the cutter crew of sixty which started from t side of the formida ble twenty died of exhaustion and exposure before the boat was beached and their bodies were tossed over board after being stripped of clothing on landing nine more were found to be dead of exhaustion all were half-naked the captain and nearly 600 of the officers and crew were lost in the forty-five minutes which elapsed before the formidable took her last plunge the crew battled with the waves in what seemed an almost hopeless task to launch the boats ci'ttkr stove in one of the survivors tells the story of their struggle the cutter was stove in and the men stuffed their jumpers into the hole to keep the water out all the oars were lost except five or six get ting the cutter clear the men jumped into the water and swam to the floats one ship stood by but could not as sist because of the boisterous weath er the captain told the men to hang on but we lost sight of them in the darkness we drifted about for an | hour and a half with a scarf tied to i an oar and finally attracted the at tention of a trawler 1 was asleep in my bunk when i was awakened by what sounded like a gigantic explosion said j parr i ran on deck there was no panic every man took his post and the of ficers gave their orders as calmly as on maneuver days in a smooth sea there was even jocular spirit among the men and one of them raised a laugh by remarking well this is a fine new year's gift â€¢ soon after orders had been given to lower boats there was another ex plosion we could not lower the pin naces thero were seventy of us in the second boat lowered we pulled away some little distance and stood by i saw two other boats get away after us we kept in sight of the ship for one hour or more and dur ing that time we distinctly saw rock a u s asks britain to explain attitude first explicit protest calls for reason fori sudden change hv contraband edict on naval stores washington jan 2 the uni ted states asked great britain to day how the latter's statement early in november that naval stores in cluding resin camphor and turpen tine would be regarded as noucon trr.band will be reconciled with the notification from the ilritisb foreign office of a week ago that these prod ucts are now absolute contraband information is sought as to how cargoes now en route are affected and whether resinous products aru included southern states are greatly stirred up over england's action and haro protested to president wilson the communication is said to be the first protest on specific articles listed by great britain as absolute contra band in the american note of pro test it was stated that while the united states objected to some of the classifications made the discussion of them would be reserved until another time the protest concerning naval stores l was communicated to-day to the gov | ernors and senators of several south era states resin and turpentine hal been intended for baha&t with cotton > cargoes and the british government lis on recdrd as stating that cargoes j 1 so made up would not be regarded aa i contraband the stale department | had no sooner sent notification to tliis effect to shippers than the british i foreign office published its new list although this phase of the situa i tlon was not specifically mentioned ] in the recent american note it was ! generally understood to have been a j contributory reason for the dispatch of the document cite british i'kijckui vl it was learned to-day that the am erican note to great britain on the subject of contraband and the seizure and detention of american cargoes was framed upon the lines of the cor respondence of great britain and russia during the russo-japanesu war great britain sent not one but many notes to russia protesting against rusian interference with her commerce and the language in which british objection to russian interfer ence was couched was much mora vigorous than that employed in the note the american government has sent to gieat britain state department officials having familiarized themselves thoroughly with the british-russian correspond ence before framing the american note of protest cannot see how great britain can fall to admit the justice of the american contentions without i complete stultification upon this point the reader will be able to judge for himself by making his own comparison between the brit ish notes to russia and the american | note to great britain | protest oh rice about the first matter of contro versy between great britain and rus 1 sia during the russo-japanese war i was the action of russia in including in the list of contraband rice and provisions if transported on the ac count of or destined tor the enemy '* this declaration of russia led the ' marquis of lansdow lie british minis j ter of foreign affairs to transmit a ! note to sir c hardinge british repre j sentative at st petersburg in wiiloh he said his majesty's government observes with great concern that rice and pro , visions will be treated as kw , tlonal contrabandawhich it regards continued onad page r % 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